OBAMA Needs protection from the FBI

Earlier, I questioned the lack of response by African-American males bloggers to the Shaquanda Cotton debate who was not a prominent figure as well as the lack of endorsement of Senator Barack Obama for President who is a prominent figure.

Shaquanda Cotton was somewhat vindicated and brothas stepped forward and expressed various reasons why they were slow to support the sista. The various reasons given appears to be that brothas write about what they are interested in, and Shaquanda Cotton was not on that radar of interest.

Forget the fact that an injustice was being committed and the facts were being shared on the Internet about Ms. Cotton. But intelligent and educated brothas remained silent on the issue. It appeared as if the brothas had a reputation to maintain on the net that put them in a Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, W.E.Dubois, Malcolm X, or Martin Luther King, Jr. camp. The camp of who in the greater society do I align with or identify with? Shaquanda was just a kid. What was her social value to brothas in the know?

And now Senator Obama. What test must Senator Obama pass to be supported by those, mainly African-American males in the blogosphere? It started out with is Obama a real brotha? Meaning does he come from the struggle? Does Obama know what it means to be a "black man" in America? Can he talk basketball or football? Is Obama black enough?

Michelle, his wife told us Obama was black enough. Obama married her did he not? Obama had not taken his intellectual power and moved on to a raced white girl simply because his mama was raced white. Obama children were African-American, because Obama identified as an African-Americans. The sistas in Chicago vouched for Obama being black enough, for his commitment to Chicago African-Americans. I don't know what Katie Couric was thinking that the elders was going to diss a brotha?

But still the brothers, was waiting for the real Obama to break out.

Bam, Obama squashes the little people. The blogosphere spread the story, that Obama or was it Obama's camp mistreated the grassroot. It appeared that a volunteer in the cyberspace had built up quite a following for Obama. So big was this network, that the camp was getting nervous and wanted to buy the site. Negotiation fail through on the money part and with that came I told you so's about Obama. But Joseph still support Obama after the fallout, after a telephone call from Obama, himself. But the Afrosphere probably won't report that.

This alone should prove Obama is black. It only takes a slight misstep, and African-American know they will have start packing stuff in a box and move out of their little cubicle. But this misstep by Obama's camp was enough of a confirmation to African-American bloggers, that something is still not right about Obama.

But, some African-Americans who are supporting Obama believes that it does not take much to be black in America. No the slight by the camp was not the reason, just a skin shade dark enough to shout warning, a black has entered the room. Jared Roebuck found himself in the media discussing another type of Obama's slight this time, to t the "boys in the hood". Obama's comments on pimps hos and other names we use to describe the underground economic businesses for our sistas who have not reached the level of the Washington D.C. madam's black book. But they did not diss the madam by calling her simply a "ho."

"Miz Julia" sent tremors through the nation's capital Monday simply by threatening to call her "clients" to testify at her trial. Talk about real power.

But Miz Julia, otherwise known as Deborah Jeane Palfrey, is neither a politician nor a high government official involved in making war or policy. Nor is she a CIA undercover agent.

Instead, she says she merely ran a legal escort service in the nation's capital featuring massages and sexual fantasy. To the contrary, say U.S. government prosecutors. They have charged her with racketeering by allegedly running a prostitution ring, with girls charging $300 an hour.

Now, those allegations have given Palfrey, 50, of Vallejo, Calif., a nickname other than Miz Julia. She's become widely known as the "D.C. Madam" who has brought Washington an old-fashioned sex scandal.

. She wasn't a nappy-headed sista, either.

But Michelle had warned us that Obama was black. So it should not had come to too much of a surprise that Obama stated that brothas use these names to degrade their mamas, sisters, friends, wife and others. What discounted Obama as black was his breaking the brothas silence code. It's just a brothas holding it up, in his misogyny attitude toward sistas with this name calling to make a sista respect a brotha.

Chastising black children who tell their peers that getting good grades is “acting white.”

Criticising blacks who don’t exercise their right to vote.

Taking rappers to task for the language they use in their lyrics (an issue magnified by the recent Don Imus flap).

Promiscuity among young black men and women.

The number of black children in one-parent homes.

The disproportionate crime rate among blacks - and the fact that it is often black-on-black crime.

source bloggernews.

Obama snitched on a brotha. Brothas got issue, something that Bill Crosby could relate to but did not speak too. That is a crime in the brotherhood bonding arena. Crosby focused on the mama's children drama. That's black brothas business, no need to tell the raced white folks. So Obama is left hanging on the is he really black sideline?

But once again, all we had to do was listen to Michelle to tell if Obama was black. It was going to be dangerous for Obama as a black man to run for president. And we knew she was right! So it was no surprise when for the first time, a presidential candidate has been provided protection from the Secret Service so early in the game.

Oh Lordy have mercy don't think the afrosphere is going to spend a lot of time talking about this latest development. FBI protection. Threats. Obama is not black enough? How they are going to write about that, with headline like OBAMA needs protection by the FBI?

No, these bloggers have to worry about credibility. Some don't want to be viewed as bias toward one group via another group. Some have to worry about not offending their diverse readers. Others have to worry about their sponsors. Some just simply don't like the man, Obama that is. Because he is black. Yep.

Obama is so hated for just speaking his mind. That CBS is sending email to their staffers telling them to turn out the comment section of any stories about Obama. The volume of hate mail they receive after doing a story on Obama is too much to monitor. Skeptical brotha post:

It’s very simple,” Mike Sims, director of News and Operations for CBSNews.com, told me. “We have our Rules of Engagement. They prohibit personal attacks, especially racist attacks. Stories about Obama have been problematic, and we won’t tolerate it.”

How can that be, brothas and some sistas in the blogosphere believe Obama ain't black enough. So, I just want to take a moment to say to my sista and brothas, are you color blind? Obama you have just passed the black enough test.